Fractal dimension

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Another key characteristic of a fractal is a mathematical parameter called its
fractal dimension. Unlike Euclidean dimension,
fractal dimension is generally expressed by a noninteger—that is to say, by a fraction rather than by a whole number. Fractal dimension can be illustrated by considering a specific example: the snowflake curve defined by Helge von Koch in 1904. It is a purely...

fractal curves

...von Koch’s snowflake is such a curve. At each stage in its construction, the length of its perimeter increases in the ratio of 4 to 3. The mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot has generalized the term dimension, symbolized
D, to denote the power to which 3 must be raised to produce 4; that is, 3
D = 4. The dimension that characterizes von Koch’s snowflake is therefore log...

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